Friday 11 October 2024
JAI 723 Choose two challenge - Reindeer Fun Christmas
Hello & welcome to a fun Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week's challenge is to Choose Two elements to use from the 3 available options - circle, trees, and ink blending. I chose circle and trees, though I did sneak in a little ink blending too. I need to get started on my Christmas card and wanted to play with some of my new mini favourites so I did some mix and matching with the new Reindeer Fun stamp set and dies bundle, Decorative Trees dies, and Peaceful Season dies (both sets also bundled). Here's how it turned out.
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Friday 27 September 2024
JAI 721 inspiration challenge - Neutral Layers of Beauty
Hello & welcome to my newest Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week we have a photo inspiration challenge. I chose to use the neutral-vintage colour palette of the photos, plus the roses, grid and book shapes with the Layers of Beauty stamps, dies, and stencils to create my card. And I only used 2 colours plus white on the card. Here's how it turned out.
Friday 13 September 2024
JAI 719 colour challenge - Changing Leaves thank you
Hello & welcome to my Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team share. This week we have a colour challenge with a beautiful pinky-purple transition of Fresh Freesia, Petunia Pop, Berry Burst, plus Shaded Spruce.
I used the Changing Leaves stamp set, dies and embossing folder bundle, and Everyday Greetings stamp set, both of which are Online Exclusives, and botanical paper prints from the Colour Collection packs. Here's how it turned out.
Friday 30 August 2024
JAI 717 sketch challenge - soft Seaside Wishes birthday
Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my project for this week's Just Add Ink sketch challenge.
The three repeated elements made me think of shapes in my new Seaside Wishes stamp, die and hybrid embossing folder bundle. I used a mostly neutral colour combination of Basic Beige, and white with a touch of Petal Pink and Calypso Coral to make this soft, pretty card.
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Friday 16 August 2024
JAI 715 Just add shading-shadows - more roses from Layers of Beauty
Hello and welcome. This week's Just Add Ink challenge is to add shading or shadows. I used stencils from Layers of Beauty stamps, dies and stencils to create a pretty, floral card with lots of stencilled shading. Here's how it turned out.
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Friday 2 August 2024
JAI 713 Choose Two - Tune in TV birthday
Hello and welcome to a new project share. This is my Design Team project for this week's Choose Two challenge at Just Add Ink to add heat or dry embossing, or debossing. I chose to use the Tune In stamp set and die bundle to make a fun, colourful window birthday card that features heat embossing and dry embossing. Here's how it turned out.
Friday 19 July 2024
JAI 711 inspiration challenge - Merriest Trees in July
Hello and welcome to a new blog post and a new look here at Colour Me Happy. You're still in the right place, just with more pretty butterflies!
My newest project share is for this week's Just Add Ink challenge which is an inspiration challenge featuring a Christmassy image. Perfect for Christmas in July creating.
The Merry Christmas sentiment on the red mug reminded me of the one in the Merriest Trees stamp set, so that, the coordinating Merriest Trees dies, and the colours in the image gave me my starting point. Here's how my card turned out.
My newest project share is for this week's Just Add Ink challenge which is an inspiration challenge featuring a Christmassy image. Perfect for Christmas in July creating.
The Merry Christmas sentiment on the red mug reminded me of the one in the Merriest Trees stamp set, so that, the coordinating Merriest Trees dies, and the colours in the image gave me my starting point. Here's how my card turned out.
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Friday 5 July 2024
JAI 709 colour challenge - Country Birdhouse
Hello and welcome. Today I have a new Just Add Ink team project to share with you. This week we have an unusual colour challenge where you can choose to use 3 or 6 of the chosen colours.
I must say this was a puzzling combo for me to start with, but I was drawn to the blues/aquas *no surprise there* and the yellow, and thought they'd work well with the Country Birdhouse stamps and die bundle and my Stampin' Blends markers. In the end I snuck in little bits of the other colours too. Here's how my card turned out.
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Monday 1 July 2024
Stampin' Blends Markers Colour Chart - 2024-2025 Update
Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my 2024 Stampin' Blends™ alcohol marker colour chart update. The colour chart shows all currently available and retired Stampin' Blends markers as of the 2024-2025 Annual Catalogue release in May 2024. This includes five new 2024-2026 In Colors.
Stampin' Blends include light and dark shades of the Stampin' Up! colour. The chart makes it easy to see the full colour spectrum and choose shades to blend together. Take a look at my coloured in chart.
Stampin' Blends include light and dark shades of the Stampin' Up! colour. The chart makes it easy to see the full colour spectrum and choose shades to blend together. Take a look at my coloured in chart.
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Friday 28 June 2024
JAI 708 choose Two challenge - Enduring Beauty split image
Hello and welcome to another team project share for Just Add Ink. This week is a Choose Two challenge, and we need to include blending, embossing, or white. I chose to use the beautiful, large floral image from Enduring Beauty stamps, dies and stencil sets as my feature.
All three challenge elements are included since it's a given that pretty much all of my cards have some white, and even snuck in two types of embossing. Here's how it turned out.
Friday 21 June 2024
JAI 707 sketch challenge - Sea Turtle Spotlight
Hello and welcome to a new project share. This card is my team project for Just Add Ink sketch challenge 707, which is a very easy one with lots of possibilities. It came together pretty quickly once I decided to use sweet little sea turtles from the Sea Turtle stamp set. This is how it turned out.
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Friday 7 June 2024
JAI 705 Just add a fancy edge - Layers of Beauty celebration
Hello and welcome to my Just Add Ink team share for this week's new challenge, which is to Just Add a Fancy Edge. I am firmly in love with the Layers of Beauty bundle, which include stamps, dies and layering stencils, after using it for last week's class. I mixed up the elements of that card with the curvy die from Around the Bend and some striped paper, and this is how my card turned out.
Friday 24 May 2024
JAI 703 choose two challenge - hot air balloons rainbow
Hello & welcome to a new project share. I made today's card for a beautiful friend, and it's also my team project for Just Add Ink's Choose Two challenge to add balloons, bright colours, or birthday. I chose balloons and bright colours, but it would work well for a birthday too. The sweet, heart shaped balloons in the Hot Air Balloons die set were perfect to create my rainbow of colour, and I teamed them with sentiments from the Beach Day set, which you know I love too. Take a look at the finished card.
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Monday 6 May 2024
Beach Day 3 - Umbrellas and surfboards
Hello and welcome! Today I'm finally sharing three more cards I made with the Beach Day stamps and dies - mainly the chair, umbrella, and surfboard images. I'm so glad they have carried over from the mini catalogue to the 24-25 Annual Catalogue. They're so useful and fun to create scenes with. Take a look.
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Friday 3 May 2024
JAI 700 Just add shimmer-shine - birthday sunflower
Hello and welcome to a new project share. This card celebrates my very special DD, and also a milestone for Just Add Ink. It's our 700th challenge. Amazing! It's also fun that our challenge is to add shimmer or shine, as I think every celebration needs one or both.
DD loves sunflowers so that was my starting point for the card. I used mostly retired goodies - Celebrate Sunflowers stamps set and coordinating dies, Amazing Thanks dies, and New Horizons paper, and current Wanted to Say dies. Here's how it turned out.
Friday 26 April 2024
JAI699 colour challenge - expanding z fold birthday
Hello and welcome to my project share for this week's Just Add Ink challenge. This is a colour challenge chosen by me using Starry Sky (retiring at the end of this month *sob*), Coastal Cabana, and Berry Burst. It was more challenging that I thought it would be. My card is a variation of an expanding z fold I made for last weekend's classes, but you'll have to wait a bit more to see the originals. Enough chat, here's how it turned out.
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Friday 12 April 2024
JAI 697 sketch challenge - Merriest trees Christmas start
Hello and welcome to my latest Just Add Ink Challenges Design Team project share. This week we're using a sketch designed by me. I hope you enjoy trying it. Much as I love hexagons though, I mixed up the sketch shapes to create my first Christmas card for 2025! That's an early Christmas miracle I tell you.
The trees are from the Merriest Trees dies. I'm glad these and the coordinating stamp set are carrying over into our 2024-25 range. Some of the other elements I used are sadly not and will be discontinued as of 30/4/24 unless they sell out before. I'll share more on that below. In the meantime, take a look at the finished card.
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Friday 29 March 2024
JAI 695 Just Add Chocolate - Mini patterned paper folder
Hello and welcome to a new project share for the Just Add Ink Design Team. This week's challenge is to Just Add Chocolate. Apparently that doesn't mean to just eat chocolate, though I feel it's implied for any chocolate lover. Nevertheless, I set to creating a chocolate related project.
I remembered that the Nature's Sweetness specialty patterned paper included beautiful cacao/cocoa bean nature specimen images (as well as almond and vanilla images too - all favourite flavours of mine),
So I thought that could be a fun twist on a regular chocolate project. I also happened to have some yummy Lindt Caramel Square chocolates. So this all lead to a mini version of my favourite No-cut Patterned Paper Folder to hold the chocolate and a message. Here's how it turned out.
I remembered that the Nature's Sweetness specialty patterned paper included beautiful cacao/cocoa bean nature specimen images (as well as almond and vanilla images too - all favourite flavours of mine),
So I thought that could be a fun twist on a regular chocolate project. I also happened to have some yummy Lindt Caramel Square chocolates. So this all lead to a mini version of my favourite No-cut Patterned Paper Folder to hold the chocolate and a message. Here's how it turned out.
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Stampin Blends,
stampin up,
treats
Friday 15 March 2024
JAI 693 Choose Two challenge - Trusty rainbow pencils adapted z fold card
Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing a colourful fun fold card, which is my team project for this week's Just Add Ink Choose Two challenge. I also suggested this challenge so I hope you enjoy playing along with it too. Take a closer look at my card, which is an adaption of a z fold card.
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Saturday 2 March 2024
Beach Day 2 - More beach scene cards
Hello and welcome!
It's taken a little while but today is my second post of cards I've made with the Beach Day stamp set and die bundle. This time I'm focusing on the lifesaving beach tower scenes using simple masking techniques and marker colouring with Stampin' Blends.
One of the cards was a class project too. Take a look.
It's taken a little while but today is my second post of cards I've made with the Beach Day stamp set and die bundle. This time I'm focusing on the lifesaving beach tower scenes using simple masking techniques and marker colouring with Stampin' Blends.
One of the cards was a class project too. Take a look.
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Friday 1 March 2024
JAI691 inspiration challenge - Nature's Sweetness for you
Hello and welcome! Today I'm sharing my team project for this week's Just Add Ink photo inspiration challenge. As you can see above, it's an image with all sorts of possibilities. What to do?
The neutral and metallic colours, text, and circles in the image reminded me of the beautiful Nature's Sweetness paper pack, so I used lots of the prints in the pack to replicate the grid on my card. Here's how it turned out.
The neutral and metallic colours, text, and circles in the image reminded me of the beautiful Nature's Sweetness paper pack, so I used lots of the prints in the pack to replicate the grid on my card. Here's how it turned out.
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Friday 23 February 2024
JAI690 just add a fancy fold - 100th birthday faux centre step
Hello and welcome! Today's project is for an amazing milestone birthday celebrated by a friend of a friend this week and this week's Just Add Ink Fancy Fold challenge. And you all know I love a fun fancy fold.
The card request was to include two of the recipient's favourite things - reading and animals. I included the Scottie dogs from the Christmas Scottie stamp set (sadly retired), the stack of books image from the Bird's Eye View stamp set, and a pretty blue floral print from the Countryside Inn paper pack (which also has some animals on it). I also made a bookmark which you'll see below.
Here's how the card turned out.
Here's how the card turned out.
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Friday 16 February 2024
JAI 689 colour challenge - hot air balloon birthday
Hello and welcome. It's colour challenge week at Just Add Ink, and we're using a bold combination of Gorgeous Grape and Tahitian Tide with white. I love both separately but can't say I've combined them until now. I've used them with the Hot Air Balloon stamps and dies bundle to create a bright birthday card. Here's how it turned out. Tell me what you think.
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thank you
Friday 2 February 2024
JAI 687 sketch challenge - Beach Day birthday
Hello and welcome to a project share using the new Beach Day stamp and die bundle. This is my team project for this week's Just Add Ink sketch challenge.
Australia loves a great beach - and we're lucky to have so many of them - so this bundle was a must have buy for me. Here's how my beachy card turned out.
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teens
Friday 19 January 2024
JAI 685 Just add flowers new year blog hop - Perennial Lavender fun fold card
Hello and welcome to my first 2024 post and first 2024 Just Add Ink challenge team project too. This week our challenge is to Just Add Flowers. As always we're welcoming the new year with a blog hop and are thrilled to share a new look for Just Add Ink too. We hope you love it as much as we do.
So on to the hop. An extra special hello to you if you've arrived here from amazing Jan McQueen's blog, or another stop along the hop. I hope my project gives you some ideas to try.
It's a fun fold card featuring some floral prints from the gorgeous Perennial Lavender paper pack, and stamps and die cuts from the new Perennial Postage bundle. Take a look.
So on to the hop. An extra special hello to you if you've arrived here from amazing Jan McQueen's blog, or another stop along the hop. I hope my project gives you some ideas to try.
It's a fun fold card featuring some floral prints from the gorgeous Perennial Lavender paper pack, and stamps and die cuts from the new Perennial Postage bundle. Take a look.
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friend,
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markers,
Stampin Blends,
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